The Art Team

The art team have more than 60 years combined experience working in the arts and health sector, supporting people to nurture their art practice. They have a deep understanding of how creating art can positively impact people.

Sharon Goodlet

Sharon Goodlet studied Fine Art Drawing & Painting at Glasgow School of Art, graduating with her BA (Hons) and Masters in Fine Art. She has exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy and Royal Glasgow Institute amongst others and has paintings in the collections of the Royal Scottish Academy, Ernst and Young, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Dunn and Moore. 

Awards include the Royal Scottish Academy, John Kinross Travel Scholarship to Florence and the Patrick Allan Fraser Trust Hospitalfield Summer Scholarship. Sharon is also a Churchill Fellow and was awarded a prestigious Churchill Travel Fellowship to visit Australia and the USA to meet with individuals and organisations working with the visual arts and older people to research models of best practice. 

Jeni Pearson

Jeni Pearson studied Sculpture at Glasgow School of Art and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Since graduating, she developed her skills and gained further qualifications in fine bookbinding and restoration. Jeni has an ongoing practice exploring different subjects through illustration and text and has exhibited her artwork and undertaken residences across Scotland and the UK.

Kirsty Stansfield

Kirsty Stansfield studied Fine Art Sculpture at Glasgow School of Art graduating with a BA (Hons) and has an MSc in Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design where she also gained her arts practice-based PhD. She has exhibited her artwork and undertaken arts residencies and commissions across Scotland, UK, Europe, and Taiwan.

Kirsty and Jeni also collaborate as Tracing Autonomy which explores the link between creativity and autonomy and how we interact and relate to others.

Awards include: a Knowledge Exchange and Impact Study awarded from Glasgow University and an Open Fund Sustaining Creative Development from Creative Scotland.

Tracing Autonomy was also shortlisted in 2020 for a Collective Power Award in partnership with the Ideas Alliance and the Culture Health & Wellbeing Alliance. This award recognises meaningful partnerships across different fields or disciplines that aim to bring about change.

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